In the early morning of the second day, Zhu Quan had just stepped into Hongwu Gate and happened to meet Zhu Di, the king of Yan. The two walked together, along the wide royal road towards the Fengtian Temple. It turned out that both of them received the will of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang last night, asking them to participate in the court meeting today.

Zhu Quan turned his head to look at the hundreds of civil and military officials who came behind him, frowned and asked Zhu Di: "My father summoned us to discuss today, and I must have made a decision about the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army." ”

Zhu Di sighed lightly and said slowly: "Anyway, no matter who is the commander, we all have to go on an expedition with the army, and we don't have to worry about so much leisure." Turning his head, he saw Shangshu Kaiji of the Criminal Department wearing a second-grade civil official costume, and bowed his head slightly.

Zhu Quan was so impressed by this cold-faced and silent criminal department Shangshu who had always been silent during the court discussion, and knew that there was such a person, far less impressive than Fang Xiaoru, who taught him and Huang Zicheng, who had thorns in his words, and he didn't care, and secretly thought in his heart: It seems that the commander of the Northern Expedition is one of Fu Youde or Lan Yu. Thinking back to the time when he followed the blue jade army, when he asked this brutal guy for a reward of silver taels for a sergeant such as Ping'an, that embarrassing and embarrassed state. I secretly smiled bitterly in my heart and thought: It is best for General Fu Youde to be the commander, otherwise it will not be easy to bear the taste of this "blue crab" loyal to the prince Zhu Biao along the way.

After a stick of incense, two columns of civil officials and military generals have stood solemnly on the wide Fengtian Palace, waiting for the arrival of Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Lan Yu, whose eyes were bloodshot, looked at Mu Ying, the "Marquis of Xiping" who was standing beside Fu Youde, the "Duke of Yingguo", who was still in front of him, and thought to himself: Although Lao Mu is in charge of the military and political power of Yunnan with one hand and is highly valued by His Majesty the Emperor, he is not good at cavalry command, so he will not take away my position as commander. It turned out that he was arrogant by nature, and after recruiting Nahachu from Liaodong, he wanted to personally lead the northern expedition of the army and capture and kill the Northern Yuan Emperor Togus Timur, so as to build a miraculous feat. At the time of the last court meeting, seeing that the emperor was hanging in the position of the commander of the Northern Expedition, Rao was always calm, thinking of this crucial final battle, under the gains and losses, he was very anxious for the past two days, and he didn't sleep well last night. [East^Fang&Net .com]

With the sharp voice of Xue Jing, the head of the imperial study, the ministers fell to their knees under the leadership of the three dukes and the six Shangshu. An old man dressed in a five-clawed golden dragon yellow robe, walked out from behind the hall, with a gloomy face, came to the throne and stood tall, and scanned the ministers in the palace with a pair of sword-like eyes, it was the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Quan raised his head slightly, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, secretly took a breath of cold air, and said in his heart: This early in the morning, why did Old Man Zhu start to run wild again? Who provoked you again?

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes slowly turned, and he looked over one by one from the criminal department, from the criminal department, from the criminal department, to the criminal department, to Zhang Xiaokang, a member of the criminal department.

Zhan Hui, the secretary of the ministry, was on Kaiji's side, and his heart was also up and down, as if his heart had been raised to his throat. It turned out that many officials in the six ministries were executed because they were involved in Hu Weiyong's case, and his official Shangshu and Kaiji were all because his superiors executed the emperor, so he was promoted to the head of the Chinese officials of the dynasty, Erpin Shangshu, just because of his shallow qualifications, and then met Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor who covered the sky with one hand, he was walking on thin ice on weekdays, and rarely expressed any opinions, but he sought to protect himself and not make a mistake immediately.

When the civil and military officials were silent, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and said loudly to the outside of the hall: "Where is the Jinyi Guard?" Give me the general Kaiji, Fang Liang, and Zhang Xiaokang to take it immediately. ”

Under the order of the Jinyi Guards on duty outside the palace, he led more than ten Jinyi Guards to rush into the main hall and came to the side of the three high-ranking officials of the Criminal Department, and they were about to reach out and take people.

Fang Liang and Zhang Xiaokang didn't know why, they were so frightened that they trembled all over, and they wanted to open their mouths to speak, but they couldn't spit out a word.

After all, Shangshu Kaiji of the Criminal Department is a supreme official, he is quite bold, turned his head to stare at Zhu Yuanzhang, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know what the crime of Weichen is?" I would like to ask Your Majesty to make me clear. ”

In the palace, from the crown prince Zhu Biao, Yan Wang Zhu Di, Ning Wang Zhu Quan, to the rest of the Shangshu, the military generals below the third prince saw Zhu Yuanzhang pass the decree to arrest the three important members of the criminal department, and they couldn't help but be stunned and confused.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, and said sharply: "Okay, I will let you die clearly." Speaking of this, he turned his head to Jiang Xian, the commander of the Jinyi Guard on the side, and said in a deep voice: "You can bring together the good things that these three people have done, so that they can die convincingly." ”

Jiang Xian came out and said loudly: "After the investigation of the Jinyi Guard under the command of Weichen, it is understood that three months ago, Liu Wenjin, the former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was sentenced to be sentenced to death for embezzlement of 20 taels of silver. After accepting the bribe, Kaiji took advantage of the eve of the knife to be beheaded, and instructed the two cell leaders of the Criminal Department's prison, Li Wenhu and Liu Jiang, to replace them with another death row prisoner who was waiting to be beheaded in prison, and secretly let Liu Wenjin out. Not only that, but Kaiji also instructed the family members in the house to extort money and property from the families of those prisoners, causing more than 20 members of the family of Wang Feng, a prisoner, to commit suicide due to unbearable pressure. Fang Fang Liang of the Criminal Department and Zhang Xiaokang, a member of the Outer Division, each received 3,000 taels of silver, and falsely reported that Zhao Fengyuan, a prisoner on death row, died of a violent illness in prison, and asked the two subordinates to secretly let Zhao Fengyuan, who had been killed by fraud, out of the city and bury him. ”

When Jiang Xian said this, he came to Kaiji, who was already frightened and sat on the ground, reached out and took out two pieces of paper from his arms, unfolded them for them to see, and sneered: "This is the confession signed by Li Wenhu and Liu Jiang, the cell heads of the Criminal Department, who were arrested by Weichen's subordinates last night and tortured by Jinyiwei. Kaiji and Sun Xu, the prisoner who made trouble in the Guozijian yesterday, are fellow villagers, and they know their upright temperament, and they heard that Sun Xu was recommended by the Guozijian as the left of the Criminal Department, and he is about to take office soon, and he is worried that after he supervises the officials of the Criminal Department, he finds out his own crimes in the past, so he is in cahoots with Fang Liang and Zhang Xiaokang, on the one hand, Fang Liang's housekeeper Li Zhen through his nephew Li Feng, who is studying in the Guozijian, leaked the matter that the two highnesses of King Yan and King Ning are going to study in the Guozijian to Sun Xu and others, and on the other hand, deliberately by Fang Liang, Zhang Xiaokang After yesterday's dispersal of the dynasty, Talking about the fact that there are scholars in the Guozi Prison who intend to entangle His Royal Highness King Yan, use Wei Chen to arrest Sun Xu and other Guozi Prison Prisoners, and use the knife to kill people and eradicate future dissidents, which is not only bold, but also extremely sinister. ”

Kaiji and the other three saw that the evidence was ironclad at this time, and they could not deny it, and they were suddenly so frightened that their souls flew out of the sky, prostrate on the ground, wept bitterly, and pleaded for help.

Zhu Yuanzhang was full of murderous anger, and said sharply to Jiang Xian: "Immediately arrest the whole family of these three thieves, and all the officials of the criminal department who participated in the crimes of these three thieves will be beheaded all over the house." ”

Seeing that the three important members of the Criminal Department had committed such an unforgivable crime, none of them dared to come forward to plead, and they watched the three of them drag out the wolf-like Jinyi Guard, and they were all silent.

Jiang Xian had already arranged the manpower before the court this morning, and when he heard this, he bowed down to receive the order, and was about to walk out of the hall. I saw a civil official come out of the queue and say loudly: "Wait, Weichen has something to ask Master Jiang." "It's the Huke who gives Zhuo Jing in the matter.

Zhuo Jing stared at Jiang Xian with his eyes, and said coldly: "These three thieves are extremely evil, and it is not a pity to die, but where is Li Feng, the prisoner of Guozi Prison, who was used by Fang Liang and leaked the news?" ”

Jiang Xian glanced at Zhuo Jing coldly, and said casually: "After this kid was arrested by Weichen, he was tortured and died. ”

Hearing this, Zhuo Jing pointed at Jiang Xian and said angrily: "He doesn't know the treacherous scheme, he just inadvertently used it for Fang Liang, and he is not guilty." Master Jiang's move is tantamount to disregarding human life. Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, and some upright civil officials who were listening to the hearing also echoed each other, accusing Jiang Xian of having no legal reason for doing so.

"Among the scholars who went to Guozijian to make trouble yesterday, is there this Li Feng?" Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

Jiang Xian groaned slightly, bowed down and played: "Back to Your Majesty, among the scholars who went to entangle His Royal Highness King Yan yesterday, there was no such person. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang coldly glanced at those Wenchen who were aggrieved for Li Feng, and said coldly: "This Li Feng ventilated the news, fanned the flames, and when he came to the end, he shrank aside and watched the fire from the other side, what kind of innocent is it?" It's not a pity to die for such a villain. ”

Jiang Xian heard the emperor say this, and his heart was also secretly dark, he glanced at Zhuo Jing, and said in his heart: This guy surnamed Zhuo is also difficult, I explain that one of the cases is not careful, and he will catch such a sore foot and chase and beat him, which is almost a bad thing. It seems that more care will have to be taken in the future. Thinking of this, he turned a blind eye to the angry gaze of a cadre of Wenchen, and went out of the palace proudly to arrange for the arrest of the families of all the people involved.

When a cadre of Wenchen heard Zhu Yuanzhang say this, he couldn't help but be suffocated and speechless.

Zhu Quan listened to Jiang Xian's explanation, and then he knew that yesterday's Jinyiwei went to arrest Sun Xu and others, and it was also a plan to kill two birds with one stone under the clever arrangement of Shangshu Kaiji and other three people in the Criminal Department, which could not only get rid of Sun Xu who threatened him, but also cause the confrontation between Jinyiwei and a cadre of Wenchen in the court, and suppress the Jinyiwei forces who were also responsible for investigating and dealing with corruption. Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang say this, he couldn't help but be secretly amused in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: Your old man is a bit unreasonable when he says this. Even if Li Feng is timid and afraid, he will not die of sin. Seeing that Zhuo Jing's group of ministers made Jiang Xian, the shrewd and cunning commander of the Jinyi Guard, very passive, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhu Yuanzhang, and then thought: Although Jiang Xian was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard on the surface, he participated in the court meeting like this and was openly exposed to the ministers, and he would invisibly be restrained by Zhuo Jing and Fang Xiaoru's gang, but I was afraid that his hands and feet would not be as flexible as before, and he could hide his deeds and do whatever he wanted. In my opinion, Master Zhu is only afraid that he came on purpose.

Yan Wang Zhu Di frowned, thinking that he was still in a dream yesterday, thinking that everything yesterday was carefully planned by Jiang Xian, and someone else was doing ghosts behind his back for a long time. Seeing that Jiang Xian found out overnight, he sighed secretly in his heart: This kind of hidden secret, only a cunning and vicious person like Jiang Xian can make it clear so quickly, but the knife of Jinyiwei is too powerful, and it seems that it also needs to be properly restrained by civilian forces.

This book was first published.

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